Disguise
A disguise is an appearance to create the impression of being somebody or something else; for a well-known person this is also called incognito. Passing involves more than mere dress and can include hiding one's real manner of speech.
Example:
- The fictional Sherlock Holmes often disguised himself as somebody else to avoid being recognized.
In a more abstract sense, 'disguise' may refer to the act of disguising the nature of a particular proposal in order to hide an unpopular motivation or effect associated with that proposal. This is a form of political spin or propaganda. See also: rationalisation and transfer within the techniques of propaganda generation.
Example:
- Depicting an act of war as a "peace" mission.
Read more about this topic: Deception
Famous quotes containing the word disguise:
“They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“But cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)
“It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired.... The leg is the best part of the figure ... and the best leg is the man’s.... Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.”
—Alice Meynell (1847–1922)